Overview

In this tutorial you will use TIBCO ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks and TIBCO BusinessConnect™ Container Edition - EDI Protocol powered by Instream® running on one machine to send an ORDERS message to a trading partner.

Normally the trading partner is represented by another B2B engine running on another machine. However, this tutorial is run on a single machine (Initiator) and when the ORDERS message is sent to the trading partner, the defined transport properties store the request in a directory on the local file system.

When you run the tutorial, the following steps occur:

1. TIBCO Business Studio reads an XML file which contains the data for the ORDERS message.
2. TIBCO Business Studio parses the XML and sends the XML data to TIBCO BusinessConnect™ Container Edition - EDI Protocol powered by Instream®.
3. TIBCO BusinessConnect™ Container Edition - EDI Protocol powered by Instream® converts the XML data to EDIFACT data.
4. TIBCO BusinessConnect™ Container Edition - EDI Protocol powered by Instream® validates the EDIFACT data against an ORDERS guideline.
5. The validated EDIFACT data is bundled into an interchange for sending to the trading partner.
6. The FILE transport is used to simulate sending the interchange to the trading partner. By using the FILE transport, the EDIFACT interchange is written to a file on the local file system when it is sent to the trading partner.

The following sections describe how to set up and run the tutorial. The steps involved in setting up TIBCO BusinessConnect™ Container Edition - EDI Protocol powered by Instream® to run the tutorial are the same steps that have been discussed in Exchanging Documents of TIBCO BusinessConnect™ Container Edition - EDI Protocol powered by Instream® User Guide.

EDI Guideline Authoring
Trading Partner Setup
TIBCO ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks Process